“Has Been” may be the best self-effacing yet cerebral William Shatner vanity project this side of “Being John Malkovich,” only so much less pretentious and so much more fun. And it sure beats the stuffing out of Shatner’s other audio antics on “The Transformed Man.” Seriously, it’s that good.

Shatner has become a bit of a cartoon of himself these days (alas, a puffy-faced one), so it’s only fitting that some genius out there fused my favorite “Has Been” track (a cover of Pulp’s “Common People”) with some decently-synced clips from “Star Trek: The Animated Series.” Even though it plays on Kirk/Spock, it still rocks in a most delightful, Shatnerian manner.